My first Alembic was a series1, longscale, walnut and unfortunately stolen back in 1994. Recently found some old live recordings on cassette tape and transfered to wavefile. Dont listen to the playing too hard ,but I am quite happy with the quality of sound considering it was recorded straight from the desk back in 1991 I think.I used the Alembic thru a Peavey Megabass head with the crossed highs and lows DI'd to the desk. I think the engineer may have put some reverb on the high's occasionly.